NEW YORK SUPPLEMENT - 2ND SERIES - LEGAL REPORTER

Landlord Can't Evict Tenant Who Didn't Know About Son's Drug Activity

April 19, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict tenant for illegal use of her rent-stabilized apartment based on drug trafficking. The court ruled for landlord after a trial. Tenant appealed and won. Even if there was sufficient proof that...

Tenant Claims No Illegal Sublet or Profiteering

April 18, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for unauthorized subletting and profiteering. The court ruled for landlord based on tenant's default. Tenant appealed, and the case was reopened. Tenant's...

Tenant's Daughter Can't Get Rent-Controlled Apartment

April 18, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict rent-controlled tenant's daughter after tenant died. The daughter claimed succession rights. The court ruled for landlord after a trial. Tenant died in 2009. Landlord brought the eviction...

Tenant's Son Gets Rent-Controlled Apartment

April 18, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict rent-controlled tenant's son after tenant died. The son claimed succession rights. The court ruled for tenant's son after trial. Tenant died in 1997. The son showed that he lived in the...

Landlord Didn't Prove Good Faith Intent to Recover Apartment for Daughter

April 16, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant so that his adult daughter could live in the apartment with her husband. The court ruled against landlord and dismissed the case. At trial, landlord and his daughter...

Tenant Primarily Resides in Massachusetts Home

April 16, 2015    

(Decision submitted by Gerald Shapiro of the Manhattan law firm of Mitofsky Shapiro Neville & Hazen LLP, attorneys for the landlord.)

SRO Occupant Under HRA Agreement Became Permanent Hotel Tenant

April 16, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict SRO housing occupant, claiming that he was a licensee whose license had expired. Occupant claimed that he was a rent-stabilized tenant and that landlord had refused to give him a lease....

Emotionally Disturbed Tenant Harassed Building Staff and Neighbors

April 16, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict 79-year-old rent-controlled tenant for creating a nuisance. Landlord claimed that tenant harassed and interfered with the building super's performance of his duties and made loud noises...

No Proof Tenant of Former 421-a Building Was Rent Stabilized

April 16, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant after tenant's lease expired. The court ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that she and landlord had verbally agreed to extend her lease for...

Landlord Not Responsible for Tenant's Fall in Laundry Room

April 16, 2015    

Tenant sued landlord after she slipped and fell in the building laundry room. Landlord asked the court to dismiss the case without a trial. The court and appeals court ruled for landlord and found it wasn't...

Lease Guarantor Not Responsible for Damage to Apartment

March 24, 2015    

Landlord sued lease guarantor to recover damages to the apartment after tenant moved out. The guarantor claimed that she wasn't responsible. The court ruled for the guarantor. Landlord appealed and lost. The...

Eleventh Amendment Bars Tenant's Federal Lawsuit Against Judges

March 18, 2015    

Tenant sued Appellate Term judges, court clerk, and landlord's attorneys in federal court, based on decisions against him in eviction proceedings. The court dismissed the case. Among other things, the court ruled...